Business Intelligence

GeoNames States and Provinces

GeoNames maps subnational administrative areas such as states, provinces, and regions across countries. Regional geography is important for tracking local regulation, elections, operations, and demand below the national level.

Why regional monitoring matters

Many operational and investment decisions happen at the state or province level. Tax changes, industrial policy, permitting, energy projects, health policy, transport disruption, and public procurement often move through regional governments. A stable GeoNames administrative code makes that layer easier to monitor.

What Problem Does It Solve?

If you search only by free text, regional names can be inconsistent across languages and abbreviations. Code-based retrieval gives developers and analysts a more structured way to monitor subnational entities in federated countries and multi-region markets.

Who Is It For?

Developers building regional intelligence, insurance, logistics, energy, retail, or policy-monitoring tools.

Investors and researchers tracking state-level regulation, incentives, permitting, and infrastructure.

Public affairs and operations teams watching provinces or regions where they run facilities or stores.

Publishers and data teams creating regional dashboards and newsletters.

Key Benefits

Monitor administrative regions with more precision than country-level search.

Combine a GeoNames region code with boolean keywords to target sectors, projects, or agencies.

Support multilingual and cross-border regional coverage with language and country filters.

Use headlines, briefs, and full text depending on whether the workflow is monitoring or analysis.

Access the same retrieval model from API, MCP, and the web app.

Use Cases

Track state or provincial policy for utilities, energy, mobility, or health markets.

Monitor regional procurement, infrastructure, and industrial incentives.

Support AI-generated region briefings for field operations and market-entry teams.

Enrich dashboards for insurers, logistics operators, and multi-region businesses.

How It Works

Resolve the state or province to a GeoNames administrative code.

Retrieve headlines, briefs, or full text for that region and add boolean search when needed.

Filter by country and language, then route the results into apps, reports, or AI agents.

AI and MCP Workflows

Let AI agents use MCP to gather regional news before producing impact summaries or watchlist notes.

Blend subnational geography with sector ontologies for more precise analysis.

Automate regional monitoring across large operating footprints.

Frequently Asked Questions

Why use this instead of city search? Because many regulatory and commercial developments are organized at the state or provincial level.

Can I combine region monitoring with sector keywords? Yes. That is one of the best ways to cut noise and target specific workflows.

Can I use it in AI copilots? Yes. MCP makes regional retrieval available to AI tools and agents.

Getting Started

Store the GeoNames state, province, or regional codes that matter to your business or research universe. Then choose headlines, briefs, or full text depending on the depth you need. API, MCP, and web app access are included. Each headline costs 1 credit, each brief costs 2 credits, and each full text result costs 5 credits. With the annual plan, you pay for only 10 months and receive 12 months of access, which means 2 months free.

Pricing

Credit-based pricing with different rates for headlines, briefs, and full-text articles.

Tier	Credits	Price	Overage Cost
Micro	200	USD 25/mo USD 250/yr	USD 0.15/credit
Starter	1,000	USD 100/mo USD 1,000/yr	USD 0.12/credit
Business	4,000	USD 250/mo USD 2,500/yr	USD 0.08/credit
Enterprise	20,000	USD 750/mo USD 7,500/yr	USD 0.05/credit

Pricing Explanation

Credit-based pricing with different rates for headlines, briefs, and full-text articles.

How Pricing Works

Credit Usage

Credits are consumed based on the type of content you receive:

Headlines:1 credit per article

Briefs (summaries):2 credits per article

Full Text:5 credits per article

How It Works

Each plan includes a monthly credit allowance
Credits are consumed when articles are delivered
Choose the content depth that matches your needs
Unused credits do not roll over to the next month

Plan Features Comparison

Feature	Micro	Starter	Business	Enterprise
Number of Queries	1	3	10	30
Email Recipients	1	5	20	100
Webhooks	1	3	10	20
Portfolio Companies	1	10	40	200

Pro Tip: Start with headlines to maximize your credit usage, and upgrade to briefs or full text for topics that need deeper analysis.